Try testdisk utility - I had very good experience with it to recover broken partition tables. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk This tool is part of systemrescuecd and other recovery live distros. On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Ubu Sumner <ubusum at ymail.com> wrote: > I ran Partition Magic on a family member's single boot XP machine, changing > an empty logical partition to an active-primary partition, and it didn't > take. Lost the partition table. > > I didn't back up their logical data NTFS partition externally, and that's > what I'd like to try to recover. > > Thanks for any pointers. Right now I'm expecting to reformat the drive and > restore an older data archive, resulting in the loss of some recent data. > > Bruce > > I am aware of custom utilities, but can't justify the cost with the > perceived value of the data lost. for example: > http://www.icare-recovery.com/partition-recovery.html > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110118/a22e92ef/attachment.htm